Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and RevoltsAlmost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict. |
Contents
The Destruction of London in AD 60 | 1 |
The Peasants Revolt to Evil May Day | 17 |
Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes | 30 |
Levellers Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women | 55 |
The Great Fire to the Popish Plot | 78 |
From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots | 111 |
The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots | 133 |
The Political Riot | 146 |
Enoch Powell Notting Hill and Hackney | 351 |
Hackney Brick Lane and Lewisham | 365 |
Private Armies Vigilantes and the New Cross Fire | 377 |
Brixton to Broadwater Farm the Stephen Lawrence Case to the Soho Bomber | 396 |
Grosvenor Square to Moon at the Monarchy 2000 | 422 |
Poll Tax Rebels and Tenant Strikers | 443 |
The Fight for Londons Green Spaces | 457 |
Guerrilla Gardeners and the Countryside Alliance | 471 |
The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators | 170 |
The War with the Chartists the Sally Army and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London | 189 |
Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday | 214 |
Londons War with the Bombers | 226 |
The Suffragettes | 255 |
The Yellow Peril to the German Pogrom | 271 |
Red London to Red Ken | 281 |
The Origins of London Fascism | 294 |
The Jews of London Jeffrey Hamm and the Return of Oswald Mosley | 322 |
Indian Assassins and Black Radicals | 338 |
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